McCarthy Speaker Fight Proves Jimmy Dore RIGHT About #ForceTheVote!

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The Squad and their supporters in the liberal online media world who’ve fallen in line behind Biden, Pelosi and Schumer would be happy if everyone forgot about #ForceTheVote. But you know who didn’t forget? The GOP's Freedom Caucus, which is currently using its leverage to extract concessions in exchange for their Speaker vote in exactly the same way many progressives had hoped The Squad would do at this time two years ago. But that didn't happen, and as a result these so-called "progressives" were exposed as go-along, get-along institutionalists who would never challenge the power centers of the Democratic Party.

Jimmy and Useful Idiots podcast host Aaron Maté discuss the legacy of #ForceTheVote and what might have been accomplished had House progressives been willing to use their power to move a leftist political agenda forward.

Plus a segment hosted by Aaron speaking with The Grayzone's Anya Parampil about the sad end to Juan Guaidó's tenure as the pretend President of Venezuela.

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0:00.0	Everybody who doing life stand up comedy in Los Angeles in January and February in Los Angeles
0:07.0	and then we're going to Tempe, Palm Springs, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Nashville, go to
0:11.2	jimmydoor.com for a link for all those tickets.
0:13.4	Is it becoming a premium member?
0:35.9	So what's going on today?
0:36.9	I'm here with Aaron Matay.
0:38.4	So you know what's happening in Congress right now.
0:50.4	And what they're doing is they're proving this show right.
0:54.0	This show, the idea which came from Malcolm Fleshnor, he was the one who pointed out that
0:58.3	the squad, because the victory of the Democrats in Congress was so narrow, so small that they
1:06.0	could demand things and they didn't see Pelosi couldn't get elected without their votes,
1:09.4	so then they could demand things from her for their vote.
1:11.9	This is exactly what the Matt Gets and the right wing is doing right now.
1:15.1	The freedom caucus is doing right now to Kevin McCarthy.
1:19.4	And so the Republicans are currently doing what I was told could not be done and was performative.
1:23.6	They are extracting concessions for their vote from Speaker or as AOC calls it violence.
1:28.5	Okay.
1:29.5	So watching the force to vote strategy work real time for the Republicans.
1:35.4	After the squad's excuses for not doing it turned out to be lies.
1:39.2	It's something special.
1:40.5	Now even MSNBC has noticed this.
1:42.4	So they're going to talk about it.
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